Cable: EU vote bill 'damaging'

The Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable has criticised Tory backbenchers' moves for an EU referendum Bill, as "just reopening a Pandora's box which potentially is not only damaging to them as a party, but it is damaging to the country."

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The Press Association has a breakdown of the MPs who voted for a Tory MP's amendment to the Queen's Speech expressing regret that David Cameron had not included an EU referendum bill in its legislative plans for the upcoming year:

114 Conservatives

12 Labour

One Lib Dem

Four DUP

188 Conservatives did not vote. Tory members of the Government were told to abstain.

Richard Corbett, who advises the European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, has said that Brussels sees tonight's vote as an internal debate, adding that "some would say [it is] an internal debate within one particular party".

Speaking to BBC News, he likened Britain leaving the EU to "economic suicide" and said that 3.5 million jobs would directly suffer.

The Prime Minister was forced to point out that the "Conservative party does not do pacts and deals" in response to Nadine Dorries MP's suggestion that she may run on a joint Tory-UKIP ticket in the next election.